The World Bank's World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health, the sixteenth in the World Development Report series, examined the interplay between human health, health policy, and economic development...
While women in developing countries continue to die in large numbers in child birth, population and reproductive health specialists and advocates around the world are struggling to keep the policy agenda...
Funding for the reproductive health agenda agreed at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development has fallen short of estimated requirements. In the changed funding environment, stronger...
Every year more than half a million maternal deaths and around four million perinatal deaths occur in low and middle-income countries, mostly among the poorest groups within these countries. There is an...
The 1990s bring new challenges for international family planning programs. Fertility transitions are now underway in many developing countries. A key question for population policy is whether efforts to...
Because of decline in fertility, population growth has been declining in Brazil and Colombia since the mid-1960s and in Mexico since the mid-1970s. The paper examines the determinants of the onset and...
This paper reports on the analysis of changes in infant mortality in urban areas of Brazil using household data from public use files from the 1970 Population Census and the 1976 National Household Sample...